Issue description:
I think Kodi creates a localized artist for albums using various artists. In my case the artist is name “Verschiedene Interpreten” (German localization). I have the “genre to artist” setting enabled in Yatse. I would now expect that in every genre which has an album from the “Verschiedene Interpreten”, this artist also shows up. But that is not the case, it only shows up in one (in my case of four) genres.
This is probably a Kodi API issue, I only wanted to make sure.
Logs:
Sent via email, subject: Yatse logs for issue 3399
While logging, I first moved to a genre which contains the “Verschiedene Interpreten” artist and entered it. Afterwards I moved to two other genres which are supposed to contain this artist, but they do not. These genres are even named under the artist name when I enter “Verschiedene Interpreten” through the first genre.
Interestingly, in my Kodi it is also there. But (seemingly) not in Yatse. I upgraded yesterday to Kodi 19 (before I opened the issue), so I just thought I might remove and add the host configuration in Yatse to have a clean sync.
After that I searched more properly for the artist - and now I found it in other genres as well. Probably it was there in the first place, but it turns out it is not sorted properly in Yatse. I would expect to find it under “V” (like “Verschiedene Interpreten”, or at least “Various artists”), but this is where I found it:
Classical: between Gonzales and Karajan
Jazz: between Holmes and Hubbard
Soundtrack: between Holmes and Horner
On the artist page: between Hopper and Horner
So it seems it is sorted somewhere with the letters “HO…”. Does that mean anything to you, or is that because some track artist in the Various Artist albums starts with these letters?
Well, this is interesting. I have four compilation albums which include the works of James Horner (actually all of them are soundtracks by James Horner which include one or more titles by other artists). All of those have
album artist: James Horner
sort album artist: Horner, James
This is quite inconsistent on Kodi side I guess that they take the sort album artist of a random (probably the first) compilation album as sort artist for “various artists”. Especially as “various artists” is a flag, not an artist entered in the artist field.
Sorry to ask, but you have more experience with them: do you think that is a “user error” (“Don’t set an album artist for compilations!”), or should I open a ticket with the Kodi team?
